Elphinstone Hotel Nainital
The Mall Nainital, Uttarakhand, India
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More Van Focus, Chilly Evenings & a Waved Claim
... 8230; no problem…until I read more carefully… the van has to stay out of the country for minimum of 6 months… hummm…Nepal here we come! The rule applies for the van only, I can travel freely back into India, which is a good thing as my visa is still valid until the end of March. Bit of pity I will have to temporarily travel without my van again if I decided to do so!
The deadline is there, the pressure is on, a ...
Delhi Reunions, Sights and Art & More Farm life
... the leaking rear brakes, search in vain for the replacing parts, try to get the panel beater to work on the van, have the gas bottle filled and buy some more van parts…this is India…where all things take time…much more time…then in the west… impatient as I am…I am doing fairly ok hahaha
Then my bank card arrived…time to visit Delhi again (want to get it personally from the embassy cos the mail here ...
Up in the Himalayan Foothills
... where the only sound is that of birds.
We did two long treks during our time here. For the first one we climbed steeply out of town up to a viewpoint called Snow View. Situated at 2270 metres we were able to look out across a series of ridges to distant snow covered Himalayan peaks. Unfortunately, the air was hazy preventing us from taking any decent photos. From Snow View we continued along a ridge and then up higher still ...
To the hills we go
Today I had the privilege of travelling with a man named John Hunt who is the founder of the charity Lotus Flower Trust. Please take a look at their website www.lotusflowertrust.org and take note of what special work they do. Nicola and I accompanied John and his Indian charity partner Ashok, and two local boys up into the foothills of the Himalayas. We travelled for about 2 and a half hours in, being told amazing stories of man/animal conflict, Indian corruption and miraculous ...
The district of lakes
... saying that jungle was so silent that day that he thought that jungle has emptied!!!.no alarm calls or any call of any animal.we were going in some route suddenly we heard barking of kakar(barking deer) behind us ,warning the animals nearby the presence of tiger and that it is on move and immediately we took a reverse turn and started racing towards ...



